T-SQL Tuesday #132: How Are You Coping with Pandemic?
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party in the SQL Community and this month is hosted by Taiob Ali (b | t) and it’s about a topic I could...
2020-11-10
Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #132: How Are You Coping with Pandemic?
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party in the SQL Community and this month is hosted by Taiob Ali (b | t) and it’s about a topic I could...
2020-11-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #132: How Are You Coping with Pandemic?
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party in the SQL Community and this month is hosted by Taiob Ali (b | t) and it’s about a topic I could...
2020-11-10
T-SQL Tuesday 132: Coping with a pandemic
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by my good friend and data platform MVP Taiob Ali. Taiob’s challenge is very relevant to current season – he asks to blog...
2020-11-10
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Azure Defender for SQL
If you have been following me or generally topics around Azure SQL Database and security you would know that it is important to leverage Advanced Data Security (ADS) for...
2020-11-09
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Daily Coping 9 Nov 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-11-09
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Daily Coping 9 Nov 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each day here. Today's tip is to plan a new activity or idea you want to try out this week. At least a […]
2020-11-09
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Database Fundamentals #29: Create Foreign Keys With Table Designer
The purpose of a foreign key is to ensure data integrity by making sure that data added to a child table actually exists in the parent table and preventing...
2020-11-09 (first published: 2020-11-02)
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Notes on the 2020 PASS Virtual Summit – Part 1
I’m in learning mode this week, scheduled for two full day pre-cons plus the Summit. I’ve been to a couple of virtual events already this year, but they were...
2020-11-09
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Protect your SQL Server from Ransomware: Backup Your Service Master Key and More
Not many disaster recovery or SQL migration/upgrade scenarios require the SQL Server instance service master key to be restored.
Some do.
Recently, by far the most frequent and common disaster recovery...
2020-11-09 (first published: 2020-11-03)
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Blogs
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A New Word: Anderance
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Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2022
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Minimum Change Tracking Retention
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Minimum Change Tracking Retention
If I am running this code:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=xxx);What is the minimum amount of time I can set? See possible answers